Chains of Justice : The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights

Sonia Cardenas
Published in 2014

Sonia Cardenas offers the most comprehensive account to date of the emergence of national human rights institutions, exploring why states create these institutions and examining their impact on contemporary human rights struggles.

Reference details

Chains of Justice : The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights / Sonia Cardenas.

ISBN:

9780812208931

Author:

Cardenas, Sonia, author.

Description:

1 online resource(496p.) : illustrations.

Series:

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Note:

Electronic reproduction. , 2014. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.Sonia Cardenas is Associate Academic Dean and Professor of Political Science at Trinity College and author of Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope and Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.In English.Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package 2014-2015 978-3-11-044254-0Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package 2014 978-3-11-041346-5

Sonia Cardenas offers the most comprehensive account to date of the emergence of national human rights institutions, exploring why states create these institutions and examining their impact on contemporary human rights struggles.

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